Chad Metcalf
Chief Executive Officer at Metcalfc Advising
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChad Metcalf is a seasoned technology leader and CEO with 15 years of experience building developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and go-to-market strategies for both startups and enterprises. He has led architecture and cloud alliances at Docker, scaled developer experience at Gitpod, and now heads Continue to reduce maintenance burdens and preserve institutional knowledge across engineering teams. His background spans hands-on build/release and ops work at Cloudera to advising and investing in early-stage dev tooling firms, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and product strategy. Chad is particularly focused on solutions that connect all aspects of development workflows rather than point tooling, and he frequently translates developer pain into commercial opportunities. Based in San Francisco with a Master’s in Computer Science, he still "types curly braces from time to time," signaling an engineer's mentality in a CEO role.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesBachelors of Science Molecular Biology, Bachelors of Science Molecular Biology at University of Denver
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Github Skills (200)
pgp10
docker-desktop10
rsa-cryptography10
smartcard10
docker-registry10
disposable10
theia10
dockerfile10
jetbrains10
provisioning10
docker-compose10
compose10
code-review10
aws-ecr10
remote-access10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
metcalfc/changelog-generator
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
GitHub Action to generate changelogs, release notes, whatever
Contributions:1 release, 220 commits, 182 PRs in 2 years 10 months
changelognotesrelease-managementrelease-noteschangelogs
metcalfc/docker-action-examples
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 33 commits in 2 years 4 months
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